The Little Friend vs Whistling past the graveyard: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Mississippi, Girls, Friendship, Fiction
The Little Friend
A young girl with a brother murdered years ago decides to find and punish his killer.
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Whistling past the graveyard
Determined to get to Nashville to find her mother in 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home, eventually accepting a ride from a Eula, a black woman…
The verdict
- Readers rate Whistling past the graveyard highest: Whistling past the graveyard 4.1 · The Little Friend 3.5.
- Whistling past the graveyard is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 10 for The Little Friend.
- Whistling past the graveyard has the widest readership — 45622 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The Little Friend | Whistling past the graveyard | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.1 (45622) |
| Hardcover | 3.5 (131) | 3.6 (18) |
| Google Books | 3.5 (3) | — |
| Apple Books | 3.5 (424) | 4.5 (267) |
Reception
| The Little Friend | Whistling past the graveyard | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 424 | 45622 |
| Editions | 32 | 5 |
| Citations | 6 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 7120 | — |
| Pages | 576 | 320 |